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Fox News Hourly Update

7PM ET 04/02/2026 Newscast

02 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What cabinet changes did President Trump announce?

2.9 - 15.234 John Saucier

Seventh in line to the presidency to the unemployment line. I'm John Saucier, Fox News. Attorney General Pam Bondi is out in another cabinet shakeup for President Trump. Let's go to the White House and get more from Fox's Jared Halpern.

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15.434 - 30.831 Fox Correspondent

President Trump says Pam Bondi will transition to a job in the private sector and top Justice Department Deputy Todd Blanche will serve as acting Attorney General until a new AG is confirmed. Sources tell Fox News Digital Bondi was fired by the president in an Oval Office meeting Wednesday night.

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30.811 - 37.882 Fox Correspondent

Bondi had accompanied President Trump earlier that day to attend Supreme Court arguments over his executive order on birthright citizenship.

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38.322 - 54.507 Fox Correspondent

The president did not announce a new role for Bondi in the administration, but says in a social media post she is a patriot and loyal friend who faithfully served as attorney general and did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in crime across the country. At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News.

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54.487 - 73.812 John Saucier

On Truth Social, President Trump calling Bondi a true American patriot and loyal friend. Movement in the military as well as Pentagon spokesperson says General Randy George will be retiring from his position as chief of staff in the Army. This effective immediately after Secretary of War Pete Hanks asked him to step down. General George has served in that role since 2023.

73.952 - 79.279 John Saucier

Iran launching more strikes against Israel today. Fox's Jonathan Hunt reporting from Tel Aviv.

Chapter 2: How is the military responding to recent tensions in the Middle East?

79.259 - 102.316 Jonathan Hunt

Usually within about one minute or so of these sirens going, which confirmed that this area is indeed a target of whatever has been launched from Iran, is when we see the incoming missiles and the interceptors going up. to try to stop those missiles. Now, we are, of course, still in the middle of the Jewish holiday of Passover here.

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102.716 - 113.697 Jonathan Hunt

Yesterday, as that holiday began, we saw scores of launches coming towards Israel, many of them targeting this Tel Aviv area.

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114.258 - 131.685 John Saucier

America is listening to Fox News. NASA's Artemis II mission successfully sending four astronauts beyond low Earth orbit for the first time in over 50 years. Fox's Jonathan Ceres at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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132.125 - 152.672 Jonathan Ceres

They're now in a very high orbit over the Earth. They're spending the afternoon conducting final checks to make sure their Orion spacecraft is ready for tonight's translunar injection. Earlier, the Artemis II crew successfully performed approach and retreat maneuvers. using a detached rocket stage as a target. This was to simulate docking with a lunar lander.

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153.013 - 166.658 Jonathan Ceres

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is watching the mission unfold from the perspective of a private astronaut who conducted the very first commercial spacewalk. Isaacman says he has great faith in the Artemis teams, both here on Earth and in space.

166.638 - 170.684 John Saucier

These astronauts are expected to travel around the moon and back during this 10-day-long mission.

Chapter 3: What updates are there on NASA's Artemis II mission?

171.064 - 178.114 John Saucier

House Republicans finally have agreed to legislation that could end the ongoing partial government shutdown. Fox's Bill Malugin has more from Capitol Hill.

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178.515 - 195.919 Jared Halpern

The bill that Republicans are now agreeing to support is the exact same one that the Senate passed in the middle of the night last Friday. What it does is it funds all of DHS except for ICE and CBP. And now Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Democrats are going to get zero of those ICE reforms they had been demanding.

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Chapter 4: What legislation are House Republicans supporting to end the government shutdown?

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They wanted all these restrictions on law enforcement agencies, on ICE and CBP. They got none of that.

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200.945 - 216.682 Jared Halpern

The Senate set aside the House-passed DHS funding bill, which would have funded all of DHS for 60 days. And instead, they repassed their own bipartisan Senate deal, which partially funds DHS, with $0 for ICE and CBP. They then sent that over to the House.

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216.863 - 238.495 John Saucier

The proposals ultimately being passed, one proposed by Democrats weeks ago. And a federal judge in New York has thrown out actress Blake Lively's sexual harassment claims against fellow actor Justin Baldoni over their roles in the movie It Ends With Us. Did leave intact, though, two retaliation claims. In New York, I'm John Zossier, and this is Fox News.

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